The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
EPICTETUSSmall-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
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You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.
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If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
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You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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